[MOD REQUEST] Auto popup keyboard on desktop

Killing the keyboard without a force flag (/f on taskkill) will cause it to minimize properly without closing.

Can't seem to be able to do that. When I run taskkill /im tabtip.exe
I receive: ERROR: The process "TabTip.exe" with PID 5300 could not be terminated. Reason: Access is denied.
Seems to require admin permissions, but appears to work pretty well. Need to figure out a good way to implement this, thanks.

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Originally Posted by _SpAiK_

Hey, this is a good solution! I love it although there is one thing that may be improved. I've noticed that the keyboard will also keep popping in when you are reading a text document. It would be perfect if it wouldn't pop until you reset the focus in that window after closed the first time.

This code won't let the keyboard pop up again until the window title has changed (switched to another app, browsed to another page, etc.)

I had your script converted to AutoHotKey because that is what I was more use to. The only issue I had was while in Metro the keyboard would popup and stay up so I found how to have the script not run while in Metro. I am not sure if it is the right way but works for me Here is my script with the bold line as being the only line I added:

Now where to put the Taskkill....I don't know
Testing it out with the RunAsAdmin does run the taskkill right but I could only get it to run the taskkill EVERY time you clicked out of the textbox which is ALL the time so it just keeps popping up a black dos box every 750ms...lol. I know why but now to figure out how to impliment it correctly.
Hopefully we can help each other out and get what Microsoft should have had in there in the first place working.

You'll need some logic to try to figure out when to minimize the keyboard... which is what I'm attempting to do with the $title and $visible variables in my last post.

I haven't had any issues in Metro with my AutoIt script.. any apps in particular?

Is this script an AutoIt script or an AutoHotKey script - reason I ask is I also browse over on tabletpcreview - some folks are also working on this and have come up with a similar script at: http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/sams...ktop-mode.html
I am not skilled enough to interpret this but maybe some one more experienced could get something useful.

I haven't had any issues in Metro with my AutoIt script.. any apps in particular?

If i were to go into IE in Metro and click a text field, the keyboard would popup and often stay up with no way to minimize it. I didnt need it in Metro anyway since Metro seems to handle the keyboard the way we are trying to in "Desktop" mode

I will see what i can do with the code you posted....thanks for posting it.

Is this script an AutoIt script or an AutoHotKey script - reason I ask is I also browse over on tabletpcreview - some folks are also working on this and have come up with a similar script at: http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/sams...ktop-mode.html
I am not skilled enough to interpret this but maybe some one more experienced could get something useful.

My scripts are AutoIt, sorry; I will specify this more clearlyin the future.

Thanks for the script but I really can't get it to work.I've done everything you guys have said but it still won't work..

There's a backslash missing in the line reading "Common Files\Microsoft shared\ink" - should be between Microsoft and shared so it reads "Common Files\Microsoft\shared\ink though this may not be the issue - I had a problem also with this script.

Separately, I wonder if Nircmd.exe might be used for this activity - I have had great success making neat short cuts that Microsoft left out - e.g., Sleep. I just do not know how to configure tabtip.exe for automatic ops.

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